Photos: WTC Transportation Hub Oculus Roof Opens On 9/11 [Gothamist]: Santiago Calatrava’s soaring World Trade Center Transportation Hub oculus features a wing-like roof which was designed to be retractable. Since the hub finally opened in early 2016, the wings have parted in observance of the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Atop a Manhattan Convention Center, a Harvest of Honey [New York Times]: The bees atop the Jacob K. Javits Center been in residence since spring. The first 12,000 came from California, transplanted in a three-pound container that looked like a shoe box with screens on both sides. They were placed in wooden hives, which look like stackable drawers. There were 60,000 to 80,000 by midsummer.